269 | Season Finale: Eve Fairbanks on What South Africa's Reckoning Means for the U.S.
The Realignment
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The Struggle Against Racism in South Africa
The more a overseas opprobrium and criticism white south africa aparted, south africa got, the more absurd the whole thing started to seem. But in some way, they had to legalize things. They had to put it into a constitution. And that's the reason you have these bizarre categories, like a, chinese people in south africa were so called colored, which is a term that's still used for people of mixed racial heritage. The panese were white. Ythe the greeks had like, a battle to be designated white. Am, like, it's completely arbitrary. It al it all, i can retrospect, feels so, so absurd. So
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